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Sunday, June 14, 2015

Ranking the Albums: Ben Lee

To
commemorate the release of his tenth proper full-length record Love
is the Great Rebellion, I decided to break out the Ranking the
Albums feature for one of indie rocks stalwarts—Ben Lee.

Lee
first started performing at the ripe young age on 14 in the band
Noise Addict in 1993 in Sydney, Australia. Before Noise Addict
called it a day, he began working on his solo debut, 1995's Grandpaw
Would; it was this record's lead single “Pop
Queen” that was my first exposure to Lee's music. I picked up
a copy of Grandpaw Would shortly after its release and
subsequently lost track of Lee's career until sometime in 2009. I
can't remember what song or video it was that grabbed me (it quite
possibly was his cover of Sebadoh's “Brand
New Love”) but once I heard his newer material, I completely
fell in love with his music and have followed his work ever since
(including tracking down all of his other records).

This
list includes Lee's nine previous studio albums, plus this year's A
Mixtape from Ben Lee and is in order of preference.

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